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Re: A .profile puzzle

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On Sunday 17 October 2021 12:39:50 Dan Ritter wrote:

> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > The local electrical system, while better than Haiti's is getting to
> > be a nuisance with 5 second power failures about weekly, or is that
> > weakly?
>
> That's a great case for a UPS...
>
Yup, but thats 4 more of them.  Is anybody hving a real sale?

> > 1. Before the latest failure I could do all this as me because the
> > mount point for the card is in my home directory, I own it all. And
> > didn't have to be root to do any of it.  This was not fixed by a 2nd
> > reboot.
>
> Are you mounting via /etc/fstab? If so, show us the line.
nope, command line, as me, until this reboot.

> > 2. and another pesky thing is starting a konsole to do work, needs a
> > $PATH modification that we used to put in ~.profile. But opening a
> > terminal hasn't called a ". .profile" since about jessie.  So thats
> > another PITA.
> >
> > So, what has replaced .profile as the function for such as that in
> > recent releases?
>
> I'm guessing that your shell is /bin/sh. That used to be bash,
> but now it's dash.

I can't find an About for that one, its whatever xfce uses.

> You could make your own shell bash -- just run chsh and log out,
> then come back in again.
>
> Note that .profile is supposed to be read only by a login
> shell, whereas .bashrc will be read by every interactive shell.
> Here's the chunk of man bash:
>
>        When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
>  non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and
>  executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.
>  After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login,
>  and ~/.profile, in that or der, and reads and executes commands from
> the first one that exists and is readable.  The --noprofile option may
> be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.

I have tried putting that path stuff in .bashrc, but that fails too.

>         When an interactive login shell exits, or a non-interactive
>  login shell executes the exit builtin command, bash reads and
> executes commands from the file ~/.bash_logout, if it exists.
>
>         When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is
> started, bash reads and executes commands from /etc/bash.bashrc and
> ~/.bashrc, if these files exist.  This may be inhibited by using the
> --norc option. The --rcfile file option will force bash to read and
> execute commands from file instead of /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc.
>
>         When bash is started non-interactively, to run a shell script,
>  for example, it looks for the variable BASH_ENV in the environment,
>  expands its value if it appears there, and uses the expanded value
>  as the name of a file to read and execute.  Bash behaves as if the
>  following command were executed: if [ -n "$BASH_ENV" ]; then .
>  "$BASH_ENV"; fi but the value of the PATH variable is not used to
> search for the filename.
>
>
> -dsr-
Thanks Dan.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 18:20 +0200
  Re: A .profile puzzle deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-10-17 18:40 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 19:30 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-10-17 19:40 +0200
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    Re: A .profile puzzle Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-17 20:10 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 20:30 +0200
  Re: A .profile puzzle Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-10-17 19:00 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 20:20 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-10-17 21:50 +0200
        Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 23:00 +0200
        Re: A .profile puzzle Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-10-17 23:20 +0200
          Re: A .profile puzzle David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-10-18 02:40 +0200
            Re: A .profile puzzle Douglas McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2021-10-18 03:20 +0200
              Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-18 06:00 +0200
          Re: A .profile puzzle songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-10-18 05:20 +0200
  Re: A .profile puzzle Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2021-10-18 07:30 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-18 07:50 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-18 13:20 +0200
        Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-18 15:00 +0200
          Re: A .profile puzzle Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-18 15:50 +0200
            Re: A .profile puzzle David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-18 18:20 +0200
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    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-24 05:30 +0200

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